The New Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 9-E

Cisco Catalyst 4500 family has its new member, the new Supervisor 9-E-the next generation of enterprise-class switching engine.

Now with the new Supervisor 9-E, these Cisco 4500 Series switches offer 928 Gbps of wired and wireless converged access per system.

YES! The Supervisor Engine 9-E is supported in Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series chassis.

Converged wired and wireless access

The Supervisor Engine 9-E, 8-E, and 8L-E come with a built-in wireless controller, extending wired features to wireless. They support up to 20-Gbps wireless throughput, 50 access points, and 2000 wireless clients on single system.

Foundation for Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE)

The center of Supervisor 9-E is the new Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) ASIC. The UADP ASIC is field-reprogrammable for next-generation features and intelligence, with converged APIs across wired and wireless.

These capabilities, along with four 10 Gigabit Ethernet and two 40 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports and 384 10/100/1000 access ports with Power over Ethernet (PoE), PoE Plus (PoE+), and Cisco Universal PoE (Cisco UPOE ), make this supervisor engine the leading Cisco access supervisor engine in the Cisco Catalyst Family.

Investment protection and reduced TCO

Full backward compatibility with 24-Gbps, and 48-Gbps slot line cards with no performance degradation

The Supervisor Engine 9-E is compatible with classic Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series line cards and power supplies, providing full investment protection. It is not compatible with the classic Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series chassis. When you deploy the Supervisor Engine 9-E with classic line cards, all of the new features except the 24- and 48-Gbps per slot switching capacity are inherited

Predictable performance and scalability

The performance and scalability enhancements of the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 9-E

The uplink options and associated bandwidth allocation on the Supervisor Engine 9-E

High Availability, Uplink, and Wireless Options

Supervisor Configurations

Uplink Ports

Wireless Termination

Line Card/Chassis Considerations

Single supervisor

4x 10 GE

–

10-slot chassis: None

3-, 6-, and 7-slot chassis: None

Single supervisor

4x 10 GE

20x GE

10-slot chassis: Last slot restricted to 4700-level line cards

3-, 6-, and 7-slot chassis: None

Single supervisor

2x 40 GE

–

10-slot chassis: Last slot restricted to 4700-level line cards

3-, 6-, and 7-slot chassis: None

Single supervisor

2x 40 GE

20 GE

10-slot chassis: 10th slot disabled

3-,6-, and 7-slot chassis: No restriction

Dual supervisor

Active supervisor: 2x 10 GE

–

10-slot chassis: None

Standby supervisor: 2x 10 GE

7-slot chassis: None

Dual supervisor

Active supervisor: 2x 10 GE

20 GE

10-slot chassis: Last slot restricted to 4700-level line cards

Standby supervisor: 2x 10 GE

7-slot chassis: None

Dual supervisor

Active supervisor: 1x 40 GE

–

10-slot chassis: Last slot restricted to 4700-level line cards

Standby supervisor: 1x 40 GE

7-slot chassis: No restriction

Dual supervisor

Active supervisor: 1x 40 GE

20 GE

10-slot chassis: 10th slot disabled

Standby supervisor: 1x 40 GE

7-slot chassis: None

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 9-E supports IPv6 unicast and multicast in hardware for full line-rate forwarding performance of up to 125 Mpps.

Previously installed Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series chassis with classic and E-Series line cards can take advantage of the new features and functions of the Supervisor Engine 9-E on all ports with a simple supervisor engine upgrade. However, to take advantage of the switching capacity of 48 Gbps per slot, the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series chassis (including R+E chassis) and select new E-Series line cards are required. You can mix and match Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series line cards and classic line cards in an E-Series chassis with no performance degradation to either line card type. Table 4 shows the supervisor engine and line card slot assignment options in the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series chassis.

Cisco IOS XE Software IP Base: This feature set is upgradable with a Software Activation License (SAL). It includes all Layer 2 features and some basic Layer 3 features. ISSU/SSO is supported in this package.

Cisco IOS XE Software Enterprise Services: This feature set is upgradable with a SAL; it supports full Layer 3 protocols and advanced features such as complete routing scalability (256,000), BGP, VRF, Policy-Based Routing (PBR), and so on.

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